Ernest Arthur Rowe

Flower Gardens at Generalife, Granada

Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white. Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches (24 x 34 cm) Hand made gilt frame Provenance The Fine Art Society 1981 (Label Verso) Priv...

BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century STIRLING CASTLE Watercolour, signed lower right Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30 x 25.5 cm)

ERNEST ARTHUR ROWE 1863 - 1922 St Peter's Rome Watercolour Signed lower left Image size: 9 ¾ x 7 inches Original gilt frame

Watercolour and scratching out on paper, signed lower left Image size: 11 x 17 1/2 inches (28 x 44.5 cm) Original giltwood frame Provenance Christopher Wood Gallery R Mellon, USA ...

Watercolour with touches of bodycolour on buff paper, signed lower middle and inscribed and dated '1839' lower left Image size: 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (22 x 31 cm) Acid free mount and period style gilt frame This original watercolour by Roberts depicts the temple at Baalbek with the ruined palace behind, seen from the opposite bank of a brook, where a group of figures are seated and kneeling around a table, with an arched bridge nearby. David Roberts was the first professional British artist to travel independently to the Middle East in 1838. He was the first British artist to draw the ruins of Ancient Egypt and Roberts produced a series of finished watercolours, including the painting, which he had worked up from sketches made during his tour. Like many British artists he used the familiar visual language of European landscapes to capture the unfamiliar scenery. By using architectural motifs to provide structure to compositions like this he is able to present a dramatic scene of classical grandeur, illuminated by sunlight complemented by a large area of shade in the foreground. The dramatic scene is enhanced by the three groups of figures, which convey the sense of scale. The figures also give the picture richer, darker and redder tones that contrast with the sandy colours of the architecture. This painting uses a lot of the essential ingredients that make up a picturesque scene: distant mountains, classical ruins and figures for human interest and to convey motion. Robert's Trip to Baalbek David Roberts visited Baalbek near the end of his travels around Egypt and the Middle East. Roberts and his party rode to the site of Baalbek on 2nd May in a heavy-rain storm. He was miserable, totally drenched and feverish. But the sight of the ancient Roman settlement rallied him. Despite his physical debilitation, 'I was... so much struck with the magnificence of the temple, that I could not resist visiting and examining it'. The storm then continued through the night, pummelling the traveller's tents. In the morning, Roberts felt extremely ill and sought the help of a Greek priest, who found him dry shelter in a cowshed. For the first time on his gruelling journey, Roberts devoted the whole day to bed rest. On May 4th, regaining some strength, Roberts explored the site. With obscure origins connected with the god Baal, the city of Baalbek had grown to importance in Hellenistic times, when it was known as Heliopolis ('The City of the Sun'). In the first century B.C. the Romans had established a cult of the Heliopolitan Jupiter there, and both Josephus Flavius...

Graphite on paper, numerous pencil inscriptions Image size: 5 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (14 x 55 cm) Period style hand made gilt frame Provenance The collection of Ernest Pearce (1930-20...

Lennard Lewis (British, 1826 - 1913) View of the Lago Maggiore and the Mountains of southern Switzerland • Water colour on paper • Signed and dated low...

J. Wilson. English ( fl.1837 - 1870 ). Looe Town & Harbor, Cornwall. Watercolor. Monogramed. Image size 6.5 inches x 10.4 inches ( 16.5cm x 26.5cm ). Frame size 12.6 inches x 16.7 i...

Very good quality work by this renouned English artist. Watercolour on paper on board. David Cox 1783-1859 David Cox was an English landscape painter...

Well-drawn early 19th century French watercolor of a family in a wooded landscape. Framed in an antique water gilded frame, which might be the original to the piece. The quality o...

Charles William Adderton. English ( b.1866 - d.1944 ). Norwegian barques at anchor, Lyme Bay, English Channel. Watercolor. Signed. Image size 10.6 inches x 14.4 inches ( 27cm x 36.5...

Cornelius Pearson b.1805 – d.1891 & Thomas Francis Wainewright, b.1794 – d.1883 English Crymlyn Bog and Neath River Estuary Swansea Bay, 1872 Watercolor. Signed & Dated 1872. Image size 7.9 inches x 15.9 inches ( 20cm x 40.5cm ). Frame size 15.2 inches x 23 inches ( 38.5cm x 58.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Cornelius Pearson with a significant contribution by Thomas Francis Wainewright, and is dated 1872. The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic pinned corner frame dating from the 1950s or 1960s (which is shown in these photographs), mounted and behind glass. This antique painting is in very good condition whilst the frame is in a good condition, commensurate with age. It is ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed by both artists and dated 1872 lower left. The mount is titled and attributed by hand. Cornelius Pearson was an accomplished landscape artist. He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved at an early age to London where he became apprenticed to a copper-plate engraver. He soon abandoned engraving however to devote himself to being a watercolor painter. Although he lived in London throughout his career, he travelled for his work to paint in Kent, Ireland, Wales, the Lake District, Scotland, on the Thames and Devon. He was a regular exhibitor at the Suffolk Street Galleries, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New Watercolor Society and elsewhere. He was one of the oldest members of the Langham...